[XeTeX] An (almost) complete cyrunicode.tex

[John Was]

Macedonian is a Slavic language - similar  to Serbo-Croat but I seem to 
recall that it has an accentual system which sets it apart.  I think the 
political map has changed a bit since Aristotle's day (!), and even in 
classical Greece the Macedonians were considered a bit of an uncouth bunch 
on the fringes of Greece proper (Alexander the Great's father Philip tried 
to give it more of a civilized veneer, and - if the story is accurate - even 
persuaded Euripides to move there, which would no doubt have been easy 
enough since the Athenians didn't exactly treat him well, and never awarded 
him a first prize for any of his plays, though at least they didn't make him 
drink poison, which was Socrates' fate).

I might be wrong about the accent but I do recall when Presisdent Tito died 
that a linguistically competent friend of mine who listened to the funeral 
oration said 'That man must be a Macedonian - he's speaking with a tonic 
accent.'

Not a lot to do with Unicode typesetting, this, but one needs some light 
relief from time to time!

Best


John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Apostolos Syropoulos" <asyropoulos at yahoo.com>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 8:19 PM
Subject: JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] An (almost) complete cyrunicode.tex


>
>>Your list covers Bulgarian too; to complete the coverage of South
>>Slavic languages you have to add two letters unique to Macedonian
>>language:
>
> What is this language? I was under the impression that Macedonians
> were Greek people and not slavic people and of course Aristotle did
> not speak and write using Je or Kje. You must be refereeing to something 
> else,
> right?
>
> Regards,
>
> Apostolos
>
>
> ****************************************************************
> *Apostolos Syropoulos                                          *
> *snail mail: 366, 28th October Str., GR-671 00  Xanthi, HELLAS *
> *email     : asyropoulos (at) yahoo (dot) com                  *
> *phone num.: +30-2541-028704                                   *
> *home page : http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/~apostolo                *
> ****************************************************************
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ___________________________________________________________
> Χρησιμοποιείτε Yahoo!;
> Βαρεθήκατε τα ενοχλητικά μηνύματα (spam); Το Yahoo! Mail
> διαθέτει την καλύτερη δυνατή προστασία κατά των ενοχλητικών
> μηνυμάτων http://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=gr
>
> _______________________________________________
> XeTeX mailing list
> postmaster at tug.org
> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
>